printer friendly pageASNAMST 126E: Introduction to English III: Introduction to Asian American Literature: Fantastic Fictions (AMSTUD 126A, ENGLISH 12F)
Introductory course to major themes and trends within Asian American literature. This course will cover plays, novels, and poems, alongside historical documents, newspaper clips, and films to consider how these different genres create parallel, and at times contradictory, narratives about what we have come to call Asian America. We will interrogate various forms of Asian American representation: political, cultural, and literary, and consider how these distinct genres make Asian American fictions not necessarily fantasy, but fantastic in the way they traverse between reality and representation. This class will teach students to identify the implicit arguments of the texts that we read, as well as build their own interpretations and arguments from these texts. In these arguments, we will pursue synthesis of many forms of difference: how political, cultural, linguistic and literary strategies interrelate and complicate each other. The assignments are designed to help students develop their own ideas vis-à-vis the texts on the syllabus and culminate in students exploring a topic of their own choosing through either a research paper or a creative writing assignment with a critical component.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
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